Details from the “Nail porridge” series in the Brazilian satirical magazine O Malho, published with the Spanish flu epidemic underway and the world war just concluded.
Man with head in bucket: “It is no longer the flu, it is relapse and old addiction.”
Man emerging from coffin: “What a mess. If I had known that the war was going to end soon, I would not have died of the flu.”
Line of annoying Allied celebrants: The other epidemic.
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1918)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 